ok, I got it working, I followed the tutorial exactly except I topped at step 12 and picked back up at 14. so I didnot add drivers or components. I put it on a fat32 formated pny 8gig usb stick and it booted on my quad amd just fine, I am planning on trying the build again and just putting the drivers with out the components to see if it still works and then narrowing them down one at a time.

I haven't tried this but in Step 16 you have two code alternatives for startnet.cmd. It looks to me like the MS code will only work if the Flash drive is of the 'Removable' type - many flash drives are not these days, so I would suggest that you recommend using the other code instead (except maybe remove the a b as the USB flash drive is unlikely to be drive A: or B:!).

which creates the FAT32 partition and then an NTFS partition. I found that I needed to make the FAT32 partition 8gb rather than the 2gb used in the example so that all of the drivers would fit. Granted, I have included drivers for several motherboards which most people would not have to deal with.

I am trying to use it on an Intel DQ67SW motherboard. I added the chipset drivers to the files as you outlined. The bios for the motherboard has uefi enabled. I can not get the external hard drive to boot directly even though it is enabled and set in the bios boot options. Instead, I have to hit F10 (one time boot sequence) and then select the drive. The windows 8 logo appears and after a while errors out complaining about EFI being enabled. The drive is EFI if I disable EFI in the bios the system will not find a boot device.

I do not see much about being able to boot and image UEFI and Bios computers using the same boot and imaging system and yet Microsoft says that the setup should work for either or both.

I am trying to find what I am missing. Have you had any experience with UEFI imaging?

Created my WinPE 5 boot USB without any issues. But I also included a DOS program called Spinrite. This is a great disk repair program, but needs direct access to BIOS for disk access. When I try and launch Spinrite I get an error message "The subsystem needed to support the image type is not present." Is there a way to include the necessary subsystem?

Good tutorial. Thanks. A question though: am I the only one having problems with Q-Dir? I added it to my winpe drive, it starts up ok, no errors, but when I try to create a folder for example, the folder shows up only after I hit "refresh". Also, I tried to copy some files from a drive to another and nothing happens. It seems that Q-Dir relies on the system default copy method which is missing from winpe.

Also, other commands from Q-Dir menus don't work (like shoutdown or restart). Are there any dlls that should be added?

Something else that works very well in WinPE environment is AutoIt. The scripts created with it use basic system functions so they all work, with GUI and all. I created a few scripts in Autoit and I use them successfully in WinPE.

For example, the shutdown function from AutoIt works perfectly in WinPE (as opposed to the shutdown function from Q-Dir that does not work).